Introduction
If you have 2 or more people booked into the office, you can now start a conversation with them without disturbing those who are working remotely π
Officely does this by creating a private channel in Slack and adding or removing people depending on whether or not they are booked in
Getting Started
Go to Officely and find the Start Office Chat button for that day.
βοΈ Note: This button will only appear if you have 2 or more people booked into the office for the current day, so be sure to check that is the case beforehand
Next up, a popup will open giving you the option to start a chat - go ahead and click that
Officely will create a new private channel with a unique name in the format of office-chat-{YOUR_OFFICE_NAME}-{CURRENT_DATE}
. Anyone who is booked into the office for that day will be included in this channel. Anyone who joins afterwards will automatically be added too
βοΈ Click the name of the channel to view the conversation
Archiving and cleaning up
At the end of the day, Officely will automatically archive the channel. This means you don't need to worry about cleaning up and you can always look back through your archived channels should you wish to view your messages at a later date
Trouble Shooting
Sometimes Office Chat can break if Officely is removed from the channel or if the channel is archived prematurely. It is therefore important to only let Officely manage this channel.
Someone archived the channel early
If you get the error message below, someone has archived the channel.
To fix this, you will need to go back to the channel and unarchive it Channels -> Browse channels -> Filter -> Private channel -> click on the relevant channel -> click on the channel name at the top -> Settings -> Unarchive this channel
Someone removed Officely from the channel
If this wasn't you, there's a good chance one of your coworkers has removed Officely from the channel. To fix this issue, you will need to go to the channel and type /invite @officely
My channel isn't automatically archiving at the end of the day
This can happen if your workspace settings don't allow regular users to archive private channels. Unfortunately Slack treats Officely like a regular user, therefore the channel cannot be archived. The workaround is to manually archive channels after each day
Error connecting
Unfortunately, this one is a little harder to diagnose! Usually, it's a temporary issue which fixes itself after waiting a few minutes. However, if it persists, please get in touch with our support team using the chat icon below